Two Monsters (recto)
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Two Monsters (recto)
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 16.4 x 11.6 cm
This small drawing shows Bosch at his best. He puts human hands on an animal’s body, adds a swan’s neck, and rests all this atop a rear end that seems to originate from some other animal entirely. Put the left leg into the end of a sawn-off bone, stick in an arrow, and a typical Bosch figure is born. The first monster, like the braying beast below it, is entirely convincing in appearance, but what kind of beast it may be is anybody’s guess. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 506-509.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, p. 273.
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 178-183.
Frédéric Elsig, Jheronimus Bosch. La question de la chronologie (Travaux d’Humanisme et de Renaissance), Geneva 2004, pp. 76, 227.
Stephanie Buck, Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Turnhout 2001, pp. 211-215, 219, 233.
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